Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - Unfold Funfolds

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today is Stamping Sunday blog hop for the month of September and for this month's theme is "Unfold Funfolds" which means anything like a Fancy Fold or Fun Fold in our projects. It's the 3rd Sunday of the month. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's projects and you'll be able to see them by clicking on their names at the end of my blog.

I haven't made a fun fold card in a long time, so it was fun to try something different when it comes to card making. I made a Twist and Pop Card back in July 2020 and there is a You Tube video on how to make this type of card, I'll add it at the end of this post.

For today's project a made a Christmas pop & twist card using products from both the Mini and Annual Stampin' Up! Catalogues. I used the Decorative Trees Bundle (164085) which is located on page 42 of the Mini Catalogue and also the Peaceful Season Bundle (164021) which is located on page 25. 

The card looks simple from the outside, but once opened the inside pops out! There is a 4 panel, pop up element inside. You don't need an engineering degree either to make one of these. You'll just need Cardstock and strong adhesive; I've used Stampin' Seal and Multipurpose Liquid Glue which has worked for my project. I used Thick Basic White cardstock for the card base and everything else is either Basic White cardstock or specialty paper.

Let's have a look inside the card, I used the Brushed Gold Cards & Envelopes (162177) and used one of the cards for the 4 panels. This was my starting point to how I was going to make my card. 

I just love gold and white together it's so sophisticated and a classic for Christmas cards. I used different types of Christmas trees dies from the Decorative Trees Dies to form the Christmas trees.

The greeting inside the card is from the Decorative Trees stamp set and is heat embossed using Versamark ink, adding Gold Embossing Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. 

Now for the outside of the card which I made lots of different layers starting with the three Christmas Trees; two of them are die-cut out using Basic White Cardstock and the top Christmas tree is heat embossed using Gold Embossing Powder. 

The three trees are layered over a sheet of white & gold paper from the Nature's Sweetness Specialty Paper (162616), there's an embossed panel in white cardstock using the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder (164049) which is gorgeous to use and then underneath that is a panel of Gold Foil (132622) I 'am so happy it's back!

I used the Peaceful Season Dies for the sentiment, die-cut out using gold foil and basic white cardstock and heat embossed the 'Merry' with gold embossing powder. To finish off the card I added a gold foil star for the tree and gold Blooming Pearls for the embellishments. 

Here is the link for the You Tube tutorial on how to make this Twist & Pop Fancy Fold card.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

To see all of the amazing projects by the Stamping Sunday Design Team please click on their names below.